Microsoft has warned of a new wave of CACTUS ransomware attacks that leverage malvertising lures to deploy DanaBot as an initial access vector. The DanaBot infections led to “hands-on-keyboard activity by ransomware operator Storm-0216 (Twisted Spider, UNC2198), culminating in the deployment of CACTUS ransomware,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a series of posts […]
Black Basta, a ransomware campaign thought to be the brainchild of people linked to the infamous Conti malware gang, has been paid more than $100 million in the past year and a half, infecting 329 known victims. According to a report published this week by blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, the Black Basta ransomware has attacked […]
Enhanced interagency and public-private sector partnerships have allowed the U.S. federal government to better prevent and respond to the recent surge in ransomware attacks, top FBI officials said Wednesday. Coordination between the FBI and agencies including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and institutions in the healthcare and financial sectors “is at an all-time high,” […]
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